Chapter 198: An Unexpected Ending

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Lu Fang led people to rush down the mountain, not far from the foot of the mountain, and did not dare to move forward. The stone cannons shot by the Song army from behind the mountain rained down like droplets, smashed on the ground and rolled around, making people dare not step forward at all.

Thinking of Xu Ping's sentence of capturing or killing, and seeing that Xu Ping didn't stop the artilleryman's meaning, where did Lu Fang still not understand? Let the soldiers behind him stop, and the crossbowmen stepped forward, aiming at Li Fengxiao and his party walking through the rocks, and shot arrows indiscriminately. The other soldiers also had bows and shot with the crossbowmen.

Li Fengxiao was cautious in the chaos of stones, and he didn't dare to be distracted at all, who knew that he had become someone else's target.

After a round of shooting, half of them had fallen to the ground, and Li Fengxiao noticed the Song army dozens of steps away.

Seeing that the archers of the Song army bent their bows and arrows, and the second round was about to shoot over, Li Fengxiao had the intention to dodge, but the stone bullets were rolling on the ground, and there was nowhere to hide, but after a moment's hesitation, an arrow had been hit in his back.

If it is above the battle array, Li Fengxiao is not afraid of such an arrow, so he will not die, and when he came out of the valley, he removed his armor. Without iron armor, this arrow penetrates straight into the bones, how can the flesh and blood be able to resist it? Li Fengxiao only felt pain in the bone marrow and dizziness.

When the crossbowmen of the Song army rewound and the second round of strong crossbow arrows came over, Li Fengxiao no longer had the strength to dodge, and he was hit by five arrows in his body, and the arrows went into the bones, and he slowly fell to the ground.

Lu Fang didn't know the identities of these people, so he just beckoned the crossbowmen to release the arrows until they shot all the people down. Only then did he bring people back to the top of the mountain to restore his life.

Stone bullets fly. Don't worry about someone playing dead. Lying on the ground will soon be smashed into a patty.

At this time, the sun had crossed overhead, the sun was no longer so cruel and poisonous, but the heat between heaven and earth had not dissipated, coupled with the raging fires burning everywhere outside the valley, Xu Ping stood in the shade of the trees on the top of the mountain and kept sweating.

After Lu Fang recovered, Xu Ping paid attention to the war in the valley.

The Song army has always only coerced, and did not come forward to fight, but used artillery to fire round after round of salvos. After a dozen shots. The barrels of the guns were already red, and they had to be poured bucket by bucket to maintain it. There were even two guns that were unusable and had an explosion accident, but they still didn't stop.

The Jiaozhi army has long been in chaos, and after Li Fengxiao left, there was no one to organize and command, and the headless flies were generally crowded in a mess at the mouth of the valley.

The fire at Taniguchi finally became smaller, and the desperate Jiaozhi army scrambled to flee out of the valley. At this time, less than 5,000 of the 10,000 remained, and the rest were either killed or wounded. Of the remaining 5,000 people, only one or two thousand had the courage to flee out of the valley, and the others hid in some corners and threw away their weapons. Holding his head and waiting to be captured by the Song army.

Seeing that the last remaining Jiaozhi people escaped, Xu Ping did not order anyone to stop him. Instead, let the soldiers give the order, and the crossbowmen of the valley and the cavalry followed closely behind the Jiaozhi army to clear the way out of the valley.

Since being rushed into the barracks by the Song army, Li Renyi recruited the most elite Chinese army to protect himself firmly, and rode on a horse to choose a high place to carefully look at the valley mouth. When Li Fengxiao rushed out, he didn't see it clearly, and the Jiaozhi soldiers in the Bento Valley finally escaped, passing through the stone cannon isolation belt of the Song army, and finally less than a thousand people arrived at the Jiaozhi military camp, and Li Renyi still saw it clearly.

With such a kind of Jiaozhi army, Li Renyi was sure that Li Fengxiao was no longer there, otherwise he would not be so undisciplined. As a famous general of Jiaozhi, Li Fengxiao is still impeccable in leading the troops.

Sighing in his heart, Li Renyi looked at the barracks full of flames again, and said to the soldiers around him: "Gather people and horses in the army, count as many as you want, and immediately withdraw to the south bank of the Fuliang River." We have already lost here in Langzhou, so we should go back early and prepare for defense, so we don't want to take advantage of the situation to hit the city of Thang Long Mansion. ”

The personal soldiers took Li Renyi's military order and took the order to leave.

This time the defeat was too inexplicable, and most of the elite soldiers of Jiaozhi were folded here, and it would be sad in the future. Thang Long Fu cannot afford to lose, and it is inevitable to transfer troops and horses from other places to defend itself, and the shrinkage of Jiaozhi's power is inevitable. Most of the northern and northwest directions are governed by local officials, and if there is no way, they will be thrown to Dali and Ailao, and the Great Song Dynasty may also occupy a part. In the south, the sworn enemy occupies the city, and he can't retreat a step, otherwise he will be forced by the army of the city to approach the Jiaozhi Essence area, and there will be no respite.

At this time, the battle in the valley had ended, and part of the defending Song infantry cleaned up the battlefield and contained the Jiaozhi troops, and part of them seized the time to clear the passage out of the valley and pushed aside the stone bullets all over the ground.

Xu Ping watched as the formed army began to break away from the battle in the Jiaozhi military camp in front of the mountain, and concentrated to the south under the leadership of the officer, obviously about to escape, and couldn't help frowning.

In this era, the killing and wounding of the enemy was mainly close to the hand-to-hand combat, and if the Jiaozhi army was determined to run, it was difficult to keep them. This is when the cavalry comes into play, using mobility to keep the enemy.

Most of the day's battle looked lively, except for the 10,000 Jiaozhi troops in the valley who were completely annihilated, there were not many casualties outside the valley, and Li Renyi was able to gather 17,800 people. It is precisely because of these manpower that Li Renyi did not panic, as long as he handled it properly, he could still hold Fuliangjiang and wait for reinforcements.

The infantry army opened up the passage, and Han Daocheng and the cavalry brigade finally came out of the valley and rushed straight to the Jiaozhi military camp.

Xu Ping took Tan Hu down the mountain, went to the Jiaozhi military camp not far to find a big tree to stand under, and ordered his soldiers to find Sang Yi and Zhang Ronglai, who were fighting with the Jiaozhi people in the army.

At this time, the formed army in the Jiaozhi barracks had been withdrawn, the fighting slowly subsided, and the Song army began to clean up the remnants and clean up the battlefield.

Not long after, Sang Yi and Zhang Rong went to the tree and saluted Xu Ping.

Xu Ping said: "How is the war in the barracks? Are our troops suffering heavy casualties? ”

Sang Yi said: "I'm okay here, I made a rough calculation, and I lost a thousand people." The results of the battle can be said very much, and I haven't had time to count them yet. ”

Zhang Rong said: "The casualties of the township soldiers are heavier, and they should be in the appearance of 1,500 people. ”

"On the battle array, casualties are inevitable, and it is enough to give generous compensation afterwards, I will not let people die in vain. But that's all for the future, and now that the Jiaozhi people have fled south, if we don't chase them, our battle will not be in vain. Can you still pursue it south? How much time does it take to adjust? ”

Sang Yi and Zhang Rong glanced at each other, and said in a deep voice: "Chase, of course you have to chase!" However, it is necessary to gather manpower and prepare food and grass, and no matter how tense it is, everything will be ready until midnight. ”

Xu Ping thought for a while, nodded and said: "In the middle of the night, in the middle of the night, I asked Han Daocheng to lead the cavalry to encircle the Jiaozhi army, harassing along the way, I think I can still catch up." Also, you should make good arrangements so that those who are going to participate in the pursuit can rest in advance, and the things that are prepared can be done in advance. ”

The two promised.

Xu Ping said: "We have won a big victory in this battle, and the pursuit of the remnants of Jiaozhi is just a casual action, remember not to take risks easily, and give Jiaozhi people a chance to take advantage of." Langzhou has been defended, and the Jiaozhi people are no longer reconciled, and there are no soldiers to send. You follow behind the Jiaozhi people, and if you have fighters, you will fight, and if you don't have fighters, you don't have to force them. This battle was originally a complete victory for us to defend Langzhou, and it was not to destroy a country in Jiaozhi, remember, remember! ”

Sang Yi had a strange look on his face, looked at Xu Ping, didn't say anything after all, said goodbye with Zhang Rong, and prepared to go separately.

Watching the two leave, Xu Ping always felt that something was wrong, and he couldn't think of it, so he had to shake his head and take Tan Hu back to Langzhou City first to deal with post-war matters.

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